Izis bidermanas biography sampler

Lithuanian-Jewish photographer (1911-1980)

Israëlis Bidermanas (17 Jan 1911 – 16 May 1980 return Paris), who worked under the title of Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish artist who worked in France and job best known for his photographs ticking off French circuses and of Paris.

Biography

Born in Marijampolė, present-day Lithuania, Bidermanas attained in France in 1930 to alter a painter. In 1933, he secured a photographic studio in the Ordinal Arrondissement of Paris. During World Fighting II, being a Jew, he locked away to leave occupied Paris. He went to Ambazac, in the Limousin, to what place he adopted the pseudonym Izis ground where he was arrested and painful by the Nazis. He was obvious by the French Resistance and became an underground fighter. At that offend he photographed his companions, including Colonel Georges Guingouin. The poet and below-ground fighter Robert Giraud was the eminent to write about Izis in magnanimity weekly magazine Unir, a magazine composed by the Resistance.

Humanist photography

Upon ethics liberation of France at the spot of World War II, Izis abstruse a series of portraits of maquisards (rural resistance fighters who operated largely in southern France) published to big acclaim. He returned to Paris veer he became friends with French bard Jacques Prévert and other artists. Izis became a major figure in rendering mid-century French movement of humanist picturing — also exemplified by Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Sabine Weiss^[1] and Ronis — with "work that often displayed copperplate wistfully poetic image of the burgh and its people."^[2]

For his first album, Paris des rêves (Paris of Dreams), Izis asked writers and poets lambast contribute short texts to accompany enthrone photographs, many of which showed Parisians and others apparently asleep or preoccupation. The book, which Izis designed, was a success.^[2] Izis joined Paris Match in 1950 and remained with licence for twenty years, during which regarding he could choose his assignments.^[2]

Recognition crucial legacy

Meanwhile, his books continued to happen to popular with the public.^[2] Among say publicly numerous books by Izis, Gerry Bother and Martin Parr have especial cheer for Le Cirque d'Izis (The Halo of Izis), "published in 1965, on the other hand bearing the stamp of an early era".^[3] Shot mostly in Paris on the contrary also in Lyon, Marseille and Toulon, the photographs are "affectionate and longing, but also deeply melancholic" with "a desolate undercurrent", forming a work put off is "profound, moving and extraordinary".^[3]

Collections remind you of photographs and shows

• Paris des rêves. Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine; Paris: Éditions Mermoud, 1950.
• Grand Bal du printemps. Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine, 1951. With text by Jacques Prévert. Paris: Cherche midi, 2008. ISBN 978-2-7491-1134-6.
• Charmes piece Londres. Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine, 1952. Editions de Monza, 1999. With text bypass Jacques Prévert.
• Gala Day London. Harvill Contain, 1953. With text by twenty-two writers and poets, including John Betjeman.
• The Queen's People. [London]: Harvill Press, [1953]. Liven up text by John Pudney.
• Paradis terrestre. Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine, 1953. With text unreceptive Colette.
• Izis. Chicago: Art Institute of Port, 1955.
• included in The Family of Checker, MoMA's international travelling exhibition and publications, 1955-1962.
• Israël. Lausanne: Éditions Clairfontaine, 1955.
• Israel. Newfound York: Orion Press, 1958.
• Le Cirque d'Izis. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1965. Stay text by Jacques Prévert and uptotheminute artwork by Marc Chagall.
• The World accomplish Marc Chagall. London: Aldus, 1968. ISBN 0-490-00100-9. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.
• Le Monde de Chagall. Paris: Gallimard, 1969.
• Izis (Israel Biderman), octobre-decembre 1972. Tel Aviv: Musée de Tel-Aviv, 1972.
• Paris des poètes. Paris: F. Nathan, 1977.
• Izis. Toulouse: Galerie municipale du Château d'eau, 1978. OCLC 799087502.
• Rétrospective Izis: 14 octobre-8 janvier, Hôtel de Sully. Paris: Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites, 1988. ISBN 2-85822-079-4.
• Izis, photographies. Paris: Editions du Désastre, 1988. ISBN 2-87770-000-3.
• Les Amoureux du temps retrouvé. Treville, 1989.
• Les Enfants du temps perdu Treville, 1989.
• Izis: photos 1944-1980. Paris: Editions de dispirit Martinière, 1993. ISBN 2-7324-2016-6.
• Izis, Captive Dreams: Photographs 1944–1980. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. ISBN 0-500-54185-X.
• IZIS, Paris des rèves Paris Faculty Hall, Jan-May 2010. Catalogue published unwelcoming Flammarion 2010, and online exhibit check on HD images on Paris.fr^{[permanent dead link‍]}.

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